he's a retired f.b.i. agent who resigned following a sex scandal and since that sex scandal won a little has become the vice president of strategic and gage meant group a nonprofit whose sole profit is to educate local state and federal agencies about the threat of the unified islamic movement here in the united states and right here i would show you video from the training session which was a free seminar for the community but this is actually what happened when a local news crew try to film it. we don't want to hear a rumor that you know. who you are you sorry. troy. now the man in that video is one dollar himself and although he would let the news crew in he was nice enough to let the reporter state observe and according to her topics included hamas as plan to destroy western civilization from within and islamic centers as potential military compounds the second part is particularly interesting given that this training was happening in murfreesboro tennessee some

of you might remember the controversy that erupted in murfreesboro a couple years ago over the building of an islamic mosque. from the outset plans to build this new mosque you've been through roche asli contested for reasons like traffic congestion zoning liabilities even suggestions that islam is a political movement disguised as religion. it's what we have here is a community that a history of islamophobia and hate crimes related to the building of that mosque and so what does local law enforcement do they bring in somebody who makes terrifying generalizations about the entire religion so rather for a county sheriff robert arnold trying to defend the seminar saying that the officers were just trying to learn about muslims in islamic culture and they were trying to offend anybody arnold then went on to say that this is kind of like c p r it took twenty years to perfect c.p.r. and we first started doing it we weren't doing it correctly well guess what sheriff arnold i've got news for you were reports came out of the way that c.p.r.

is being taught wasn't the best way people change the way they taught it and it shared arnold or anyone else in the rather for a county police department had taken a little time to do some research they would have found out the back in two thousand and ten in columbus ohio one dollar training session turned ugly when he accused a local man of having ties to the muslim brotherhood so yeah sounds like my idea of somebody who is just tried in for people and not offend and it should be noted that just this week an inquiry into the f.b.i. is training on counterterrorism has led to them purging hundreds of documents or about three hundred presentations given since nine eleven because they were imported they use stereotypes about arabs or muslims or they had factual errors and the f.b.i. seems to be working to clean up their act of training sessions like the one in tennessee this week are allowed to continue. all of our foreign policy all of our state and local level decisions all law enforcement actions will be completely based on a fiction. yes john a fiction but unlike you i don't think of the muslim brotherhood is behind this

scary story i think that it's you and so are having its officers attend a training session with jod the brother for a county police department is tonight told time when. our guys time for happy hour and joining me this evening are two producer jenny churchill and comedian bryan perry thanks for joining me guys i see your name right ok well you're not. close enough to. her you see yet reached the ok. let's talk goat go go sometimes to funny things some of them just just faint all the take look this. is a bit of snow because they never lose consciousness when they lose. their stardom genetic. muscles go. the last few moments. on their

feet. turns out that's not the only funny thing about goats resarch as a fad that they actually develop their own speaking voice when they move away from their family and from their siblings and so goeth accents change as they grow older and go from one place to another to go to have access can you imagine want to go that sounds like can you give me an impression no i think i'm going to do i think i'm going to out of that when i do your best go. i do have to say that i'm a little upset that i've been wasting all this effort on cat as the biggest threat to humans when clearly it's goats if they have the intelligence to change their other this is a suspicious study because this is a british study saying that if you let a bunch of goats go off on their own they develop their own accent. it's kind of just like a way for british people to compare goats to americans i mean if you think about it it's just them saying i'll give you studies have shown if you let

a bunch of stupid animals off on their own they'll start to develop a funny accent you know i think that you actually think they're you know without. talking about seventy who is just a. lot of words but i will take a listen to eric bolling today when he was speaking to maxine waters or about the congresswoman you saw what happened to whitney houston stepped away from the crack pipe all the way from. i mean you know it's great it's going to get in trouble. how would you explain those cuts. and that was in reference to her strong rhetoric against the banks and then afterwards he didn't apologize he just said i was joking yeah only fox news could take something that they claim is controversial and have read it and have their coverage be that fully more controversial it should be even be honestly a fox news anchor says something racist because his news at this point should be

just we should just as you should have you know way they say something when they just listen to her and then responded to her with like whatever she was talking about that that part could have to go by the media for ever everyone to see but it's just. sir ok this is kind of depressing i have to say about the u.s. but first before we get into the study of what exactly are fields there are benefits to alcohol we just learned this recently. if you want to boost your creativity you might want to grab a drink a new study suggests having an alcoholic beverage or two can help inspire you researchers found social drinkers they studied completed a problem solving task better than sober people seems those who are less afraid of making mistakes and they simply go for it. totally makes right really fast before you know i have to say something about that clip bothers me i thought most people spend all their time like looking for their friend steve so they don't seem to have

the best problem solving skills i'm wondering what the problem they had people solve was yeah i guess i think it depends on the problem because there's going to. write like just one or two drinks. have some confidence. and then like once you've passed a certain threshold that you just start your battles but the reason for this is because there was a study done basically that found out that the us doesn't even break into the top twenty when it comes to consumption of beer wine or spirits which personally i like mine find a little i find it a little shocking disappointing i think it's a little disappointing but then you kind of have to get. pissed because the reason this was even done is that. the university of cambridge is doing this because you say alcohol kills more than two point five million people annually and so they want the world health organization to regulate alcohol on

a global level. how did you get on global level how do you do anything on a global level here that's low on the bottom of the list of things i think it would be i think they're going to get to that right after they regulate the internet on a global level that maybe you saw like the was already. you should solve first before you just want to take people's booze away did you know it was true we lost to like swaziland i have to say i'm really intrigued to go to some of these places just to see i mean if you've been out on a saturday and adams morgan in d.c. you know that there are lots of junk people running around so what are these countries that there are more drunks right now where are the sober people in america right now this one i'm really curious about what it. was on the list who took you to on church you know i don't know i know i did my soul the russian federation on there or something on the list or you know what that means but that's russia russia ok all right let's to our last word here you know we're still really

torn up about whitney houston's passing here on the show nancy grace tried to claim somebody shoved her head under water and now the westboro baptist have to ruin things too and so they put out a little song take a listen. was. there going to protest whitney houston's funeral for her sorcery. thing magic words well i have to say i am not sorcery and magic but i do have to say i watched at least one episode of her reality show and she certainly seemed possessed so that could be what they're referring to and i don't know why they're protesting it seems weird to me that you protest a funeral because in their demented minds she's like died and gone to hell like

vision be they process one approach and i'm sure they're happy usually having bella very much right everyone forgot about their agreement with them any relevance i guess got to wrap it up thanks so much for joining us tonight as every night show thanks for tuning in make sure you come back tomorrow jeremy scahill is going to be back on the program in the meantime you know to follow us on twitter on facebook and find everything you've got complex you want to show in three a thanks at the new. wealthy british style sun. times let's go. around the. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on

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in washington d.c. it here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture. on tanna ignore the citizens united ruling and now corporations have asked the supreme court to step in a might this play out and might we be on the verge of a constitutional crisis also it's been one year since the uprising wisconsin began where has the labor movement gone since then and where do we go from here and demand for oil is it a fifteen year low but oil prices are still sky high if demand isn't driving the

price and what is. you need to know this more than two years after the supreme court ruled that corporations are people and money is speech the issue is once again heading over to the supreme court this time the argument is over whether or not the supreme court's ruling in citizens united trumps a one hundred year old montana law that bans corporations and spending money in state elections according to the man to montana corrupt practices act passed in one thousand and twelve a corporation may not make an expenditure in connection with a candidate or a political party that supports or opposes a can a candidate or a political party in december of last year the montana supreme court upheld this law ignoring the supreme court's decision from the unit from the. citizens united decision and continuing that state's ban on corporate political expenditures but this week three montana corporations took their case to the supreme court

petitioning justice anthony kennedy to overturn the montana supreme court's decision and open the floodgates to corporate money in that state the lead lawyer representing these corporations james bopp jr who also happened to its assist with the citizens united legal arguments argued to justice kennedy that immediate relief is needed to prevent irreparable harm to the corporations first amendment free speech right. so how might this shake out first to get the perspective from montana i'm joined by jeff jeff milchan the co-founder of the american independent business alliance jeff welcome back thanks for having me tom let's get to how we got here in the first place what motivated the montana supreme court to reject the u.s. supreme court's citizens united decision. well first it's a little overstatement to say they rejected it outright i mean the they meet made some very clear distinctions between what was at stake in the montana supremes court case and what was decided in citizens united in

a couple of the key distinctions were in montana the law the corrupt practices act the law under under challenge actually protected nonpartisan and judicial election something that wasn't addressed at all in the citizens united ruling also in citizens united one of the arguments by the majority of the five person majority on the supreme court was that there was not a real documented record of the corruption that was being alleged as a threat in montana the state attorney general presented an extensive record of. corporate corruption throughout our history right down to the buying of u.s. senate seats so there are a couple of key distinctions but i think part of the motivation of the montana justices also is the fact that this was a citizen vote back in one thousand and twelve this was not just the law makers this came about through direct citizen the reaction against some of the most overt corporate corruption in american history and that because of that they deserve some

special deference from the u.s. supreme court before saying that they know how montana elections work better than montanans do this was a citizens referendum back in one thousand twelve thousand and back in and in one nine hundred twelve that was kind of the tail end of the anaconda copper companies . basically ownership of the state i mean they they they had state legislators on their payroll they had governors on their payroll. on their payroll certainly you know passing money to them by by the backdoor they own the newspapers it was kind of all we want industries state. and what's the history of the people's revolt against you know the copper companies beyond just this. or is was this one of the. well there's been a continued history throughout the past century going on just several years ago. the federal appeals court actually struck down a montana citizen initiative that banned corporate spending on ballot initiatives

which then allowed huge mining company to come in and try to get rid of laws that protected us against cyanide leach mining which just despite them spending millions of dollars on actually we narrowly defeated but there's been an ongoing history and montana you know it's been traditionally a red state but there is a very strong populist streak there's a very strong cultural awareness of the threats of corporate power so that's part of what's led to the citizen support for the state defending the law the support the attorney general and the overwhelming support amongst montanans for the action taken by the u.s. supreme court you mean by the mosque before the montana supreme court yes and that was that was that was vital as i said in us. yeah you represent a small business group and the the you know i'm curious is there is there are widespread discussion and awareness of this and and our small businesses in montana

worried about what might happen if. suddenly this kind of political corruption is legalized in that state and all politicians come knocking on their door saying hey gimme gimme gimme if you want something sure that's actually going on around the country with small business owners not just that montana just yesterday i believe amongst the growing number of communities to pass local resolutions against corporate personhood in favor of overturning citizens united was asheville north carolina in albany california in asheville the asheville grown business alliance one of the local affiliates of the american independent business lions was a strong supporter of that effort we're seeing many more small business owners aware of the fact that when we allow huge corporations to translate their economic power into political power. they're using that to stack the deck in their favor and very often that's directly opposed to the interests of small businesses because they're competing against big companies that aren't paying their fair share of taxes that are getting direct public subsidies that are avoiding enforcement of

many regulations that are ensnaring smaller businesses so they recognize in order to have a free marketplace if if they want to be able to compete based on the quality of the products and services they're selling you know we need to eliminate the ability of the larger corporations to stack the deck in their favor a poll actually just came out last month indicating that by a seven to one margin small business owners were very concerned about the corporate power wielded by a large large corporations and wanting to it's eliminate that jeff thanks so much for being with us tonight and for the great work you're doing. thank you tom now for the legal aspects of the case and the potential for a constitutional crisis to arrive out of the citizens united ruling and its coalition with this with this decision in montana i'm joined by ian mille eiser attorney policy analyst and a blogger over the center for the center for american progress as think progress was welcome it's good to see and hear thanks so much what are the options that jeff

was just pointing out that you know one of the things that makes this nine hundred twelve law in montana unique it says that corporations can't give money to politicians is it was passed by a citizen referendum right and the in citizens united the the supreme court or five of the guys in the supreme court basically said there's no history of corruption of politicians and in montana there's a huge history of it and the montana supreme court said so what do you how can the supreme court deal with this dissonance i mean this is a very difficult case for me as a lawyer because on the one hand what the montana supreme court did here was wrong there a lower court lower courts have to file follow sapir your courts and so they had to follow citizens united whether they like it or not and they didn't and they did it on the other hand so citizens united is the worst decision in the last twenty years at least and so the question is now that this issue has been teed up the montana court has done what it's done what can the supreme court do and the answer i think is very simple they should realize they made an error. you mentioned how the

montana court made all these firings about well yeah you know like as it turns out these expenditures are really corrupting and the interesting thing is the thing about citizens united is we've seen that at the federal level as well you know you have one casino billionaire whose family has given a web in million dollars to newt gingrich's campaign back he made a lot of his money in macau and hong kong and china and you know i think i mean he's you know he's an international billionaire who's you know he is a u.s. citizen but he's made of money around the world he's given a ton of money to one can and he's met personally with that candidate. and gingrich isn't the only person and you know that now you have santorum and foster friess is a wall street billionaire and then you've got john paulson and. we should i think we should be honest with ourselves eventually someone is going to come along and be very generous to barack obama sure and you know when you are a candidate and you get elected and then if someone who is giving you all of that

money you know you're you know your office to the money that they've given you in some cases that's going to cause you to want to be generous back in the eighty's which was just decided a few months ago the supreme court if my recollection is correct in the supreme court in fact as i recall from the bench was a rehnquist or not rehnquist scalia made a joke about you know nobody said corporations are people how can they be embarrassed because eight hundred eighty s. argument was if this boy if i only went through and they're dirty underwear they're doing it dirty laundry or whatever got aired that they would be embarrassed about it literally as the word they used in the supreme court said no sorry you can't be a barrister corporation was that the beginning possibly of this supreme court walking back their own citizens united decision unfortunately i think that's unlikely so there are two different issues there in the eighteenth tee case the question was under the four year statute so like under the words that congress wrote it was a for the moment issue. it was

a statutory issue i mean as i recall it was purely a question of whether the words that congress wrote applied eighteen t. or not you know and of course it's citizenship it's a constitutional issue is there any evidence at all that the court has even considered walking back from it because you know some of the public statements that were made by scalia and thomas and then some of their surrogates since citizens united been highly defensive position well that there was one blip which was there was this case they came up dealing with foreign nationals who wanted to be able to give money to camp aides and the supreme court said we think unanimously because it was done in a one sentence order into. that anyone dissented that no they can't and it was i mean it literally was a one sentence order and there were you know if you take the reasoning of citizens united seriously they were decent arguments to be made that it flowed from citizens united that yes foreign nationals should also be allowed to spend their money to elect the people they want. so the supreme court didn't explain why didn't give

a reason but they thought for whatever reason that they weren't ready to go so far as to say that non u.s. citizens andrew jackson famously said to the supreme court you know you guys have made your decision trying to force if this was in the church the indians or us back in the eighteenth thirty's could montana just say you know we're standing by this dam you know i'm a rule of law kind of guy i mean what the supreme court did was despicable but i'm asking what's right or was legal i'm asking you know can montana actually continue to defy the u.s. supreme court the supreme court has no enforcement mechanism the supreme court doesn't have an in force mechanism but i don't want to live in a world where states are deciding on their own what the wall is and you know we see a lot of conservatives invoking cation theories to say oh we can just ignore the affordable care act we can ignore gun laws are you don't think they'll do it i don't think they'd bill do it and frankly i don't think they should i think citizens united should be overruled and i think it's you know i mean legally i'm totally in agreement i was curious with him thanks so much for dropping by tonight

illuminating this topic so thank you simple fact is that as long as citizens united stands then our democracy is corrupt time to go to move to amend or to fight for a constitutional amendment to kick corporations out of our elections. coming up after the break it's been one year since the protests against governor scott walker's war on unions began wisconsin what's happened since what is the state of the labor movement and where do we go from here. we just put a picture of me when i was like nine years old to tell the truth. i'm a contestant i am a total get a friend that i love traveling hip hop music and for. that he

was kind of a yesterday. i'm very proud of the world without us you are his place. look. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

who is screwed you are if you drive a car oil is once again trading at over one hundred dollars a barrel in their projections the gas could hit four or even five dollars a gallon this summer or before the election it's not exactly helpful for an economy in a fragile recovery but here's the strange thing demand for oil in america is lower

than it's been since one nine hundred ninety seven so if demand isn't driving up the price of oil what is. well it's actually being caused in large part by wall street and it's what's known as oil speculation here's how it works it's pretty straightforward say that you have an airline ok here's acme airlines and they use a lot. and then you've got an oil company over here you know b.p. exxon whatever the koch brothers and they want to sell a lot of oil because they pump the stuff out of the ground and the airline would like to know since they're selling airline tickets a year out they'd like to know for the next year what the cost of oil is going to be and the oil company would like to know that they're going to have a customer for the next year or so they make a deal on what's called a future the oil company says ok we'll sell you this oil and say well someone selling for seventy five dollars a barrel everybody thinks it might go to ninety or ninety five one hundred who knows so they say we'll sell it to you for eighty five dollars

a barrel compromise will sell you a year's worth if you buy this futures contract and the airline then it's about i mean if the price goes down they say they had to pay more they're still paying eighty five a barrel for goes up they they make out like bandits so anyway it's a bet used to be up until one thousand nine hundred one that only the oil companies in the and the airlines could get in the game and play this stuff but then in one thousand nine hundred one goldman sachs came along the banks and they said we'd like to play we'd like to make some money off this even though they don't want to take any delivery of oil they've got no place to put it you know this is and they don't use oil so the f.c.c. gave them an exemption and said that's fine you can you can uniquely play in the oil fields so they started buying oil futures and betting on oil futures right now there's over eleven billion dollars worth of bets on the oil futures market from the bank's toure's who are using oil which is driving up the price of oil and gasoline and oil for all.